Deux arbres

Details

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)
Deux arbres
watercolour and pencil on paper
8¼ x 10¼in. (21 x 26.2cm.)
Executed circa 1890

Provenance

Paul Cézanne fils, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Paul Guillaume, Paris.
Acquired from the above by Adrien Chappuis, Tresserve, in 1933.
By descent from the above to the present owner.

Literature

L. Venturi, Cézanne, son art-son oeuvre, Paris, 1936, no. 1322, p. 313.
J. Rewald, Paul Cézanne. The Watercolours, London, 1983, no. 358, p. 171 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

The recto of this sheet was page LXXXIV from the sketchbook CP IV.

Whilst Rewald (op. cit.) dated this watercolour circa 1890, Venturi, in his notes for the revised edition of his unpublished 1936 catalogue proposed a later date of circa 1900.

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